Training Specialist, Sr

LyondellBasell North America•Houston, TX

About The Position

This position is responsible for owning and driving the full suite of role specific, nuanced leadership development programs for manufacturing. The incumbent will maintain and grow existing offerings through consistent implementation, effectiveness measurements, and continual improvement efforts. The position will also identify gaps in current offerings and design and create specific content for additional personas including specialists, and manufacturing managers. This position allows opportunity for the incumbent to drive improvements and change within Global Manufacturing training organization by identifying, developing, and implementing learning strategies that focus on core manufacturing leadership gaps.

Requirements

High school education required.
Demonstrated experience in project, process, or program management.
Experience in manufacturing with some combination of leadership, leadership training, and instructional design.
Typically 10 to 15 years of manufacturing experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in training development and deployment or supervision.
Act with an enterprise mindset to have company wide impact.
Influence internal stakeholders from first line supervisors to site management.
Build capability in others to mature program effectiveness.
Must be highly self-sufficient and driven for results.
Understand, anticipate, and address internal customer needs in a way consistent with our learning objectives.
Team and individual engagement to facilitate results through the contributions of others within Global Manufacturing.
Strong consultative, influencing, and coaching skills to establish and maintain relationships at multiple levels.
Takes initiative, is a self-starter; demonstrates a bias for action.
Exhibits an innovative mindset with desire to continuously improve business processes.
Utilize instructional design and adult learning principles.
First hand understanding of operations and maintenance tasks.
Knowledgeable of the training systems for site operations and maintenance.
Exhibits interest in digital tools to evolve to today’s workforce learning needs.

Nice To Haves

Formal instruction design training preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide ownership, direction, and execution of the Foundations Leadership Program (FLP) at all sites located in the Global Manufacturing organization.
Oversee Step Up training (Leadership Prep Program) and Manufacturing Leadership Development through the Intentional Leadership Academy (ILA).
Support other GTLS programs such as Train the Trainer, supporting OE specialists, and supporting other dedicated site operations or maintenance trainers.
Develop curriculum, optimize delivery mechanisms (i.e. self-directed learning, digital, etc.), facilitate training, measure curriculum effectiveness, and continuously improve.
Consult and work collaboratively with manufacturing site personnel as well as management to get buy-in and accomplish program objectives.
Conduct routine health and maturity assessments of the current programs to ensure consistency and capability to value for Global Manufacturing.